Unicode : What is it good for? |
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valuable information | ||
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inexpensive | ||
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access | ||
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exchange | ||
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permanence | ||
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Let’s look at these ideas one by one, to see how they’re related, and to see how in the long run, Unicode is an inexpensive thing with unimaginably big future payoffs. |
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People want valuable, usable, worldwide, multilingual, technical, catalog, marketing and sales information of all kinds. | ||
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People want this to be easy. "Easy" means “inexpensive”. | ||
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People want easy access: they want to easily find valuable information. | ||
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People want to give you data, and they want you to give them data, in an accessible, portable, editable format that can be easily swapped between computers. | ||
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People want the data in a permanent format that will be as accessible and exchangeable tomorrow as it is today. Money spent to get data into permanent form today is money that will never have to be spent again. | ||
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Unicode support is a modest long term investment that will have big future payoffs. Building Unicode support opens and keeps open doors to rich data. Why not give yourself now what you will want in the future? |
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